All residencies are fully funded, including airfare, and full room and board at our 17th-century villa and cultural center in Sezze Romano, Italy. We are currently offering residencies for two weeks each in the spring and fall.
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FALL 2024
Harriet Armstrong is the author of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, forthcoming with Les Fugitives in Spring 2025. Her fiction has appeared in HEAT (Giramondo), The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Georgia Review, and is currently being translated into French and German. Harriet is 24 and lives and works in London.
Raegan Bird lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, and co-runs the publishing project Blue Arrangements with her husband Nathan Dragon. Her fiction has been published by New York Tyrant, MuuMuu House, Joyland, and Blimp Biannual. She is working on a novel about motherhood, agriculture, and the illusion of control.
Madeline Cash is a writer and editor of Forever Magazine. Her debut novel, Lost Lambs, is forthcoming on FSG.
Thomas Thatcher lives in New England. He is a gardener and commercial fisherman. He is writing his first novel.
SPRING 2024
Izzy Casey’s writing has been published in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Black Warrior Review, Bennington Review, Bat City Review, The Yale Review, BOAAT, Corriere della Sera, The Columbia Review, the Volta, R&R, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was the recipient of a fellowship with the Poetry Foundation. She lives in New York City. More info at izzycasey.com.
Olivia Kan-Sperling writes between image and text. Her first book, Island Time (Expat Press), is a music video/virtual world/fanfic starring Kendall Jenner. More info at oliviaks.page.
Stephen Mortland is a fiction writer whose work can be found in Chicago Review, New York Tyrant, Fence Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a frequent contributor to NOON Annual. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Nicole Otero is an artist and filmmaker. With an emphasis on the possibilities of sound, she is interested in haptic, embodied cinema. Her films have premiered at BAM in New York and Indie Memphis. Her debut short film, SLIP, is currently available on Criterion Channel. She is a recipient of a 2022 NALIP Latino Lens grant, 2023 California Arts Council’s Emerging Artist grant, a 2024 MacDowell Artist Fellowship, and is a forthcoming 2024 Bloedel Creative Resident. More info at notero.film.
Walt John Pearce lives in the mountains and is working on his debut novel HARMONY. More info at walterpearce.net.
FALL 2023
Honor Levy is a writer from LA. Her first book, My First Book, is forthcoming from Penguin, April 2024.
Nathan Dragon is from Salem, MA. He is a frequent contributor to NOON Annual. His work can also be read in The Baffler, New York Tyrant, Fence, Muumuu House and more. Dragon's debut short story collection—The Champ Is Here—will be published July 2024 by the new press, Cash4Gold Books. He co-founded, runs, and edits a small publishing project called Blue Arrangements with his wife, Raegan Bird. More info at nathandragon.com.
Amanda VanValkenburg is a visual artist using a combination of traditional and digital techniques to explore contemporary anxiety and digitally mediated interactions between the past and future. Her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Hong Kong Art Centre, Trumbullplex Detroit, Elmhurst Museum, Mana Contemporary in Chicago, Woman Made Gallery, 6018 North Gallery, LeRoy Neiman Center, and screened at the Gene Siskel Theater, Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Nightingale Cinema, Links Hall, Filmfront, and the Chicago Digital Media Festival. She has completed residencies through High Concept Labs, Ox-bow, and Ragdale. More info at amandavanvalkenburg.com.
Zans Brady Krohn is a writer from Palo Alto, California. Her fiction has been published in Heavy Traffic, Forever Magazine, Civilization, Expat, The Drunken Canal and Blue Arrangements. She lives in New York City.
Alejandro Parisi is an artist painter who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and who maintains an intense relationship with Italy. Trained in artists’workshops and then self-taught, his work has received awards and distinctions in his country. His large format paintings, both non-figurative and figurative, are part of private collections in his country and internationally.
Spring 2023
Blake Butler is the author of ten book-length works, recently including Alice Knott (Riverhead) and Aannex (Apocalypse Party), as well as the nonfictional Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia (Harper Perennial). His short fiction, interviews, reviews, and essays have appeared widely, including in The Believer, The New York Times, Bomb, Bookforum, and as an ongoing column at Vice. More info at blakebutler.org.
Scott McClanahan is the writer of Crapalachia (Two Dollar Radio), Hill William (Tyrant Books), The Sarah Book, and the Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1 (Lazy Fascist Press). He lives in West Virginia.
Juliet Escoria is the author of the story collection “You Are the Snake” (forthcoming from Soft Skull in 2024), as well as Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, May 2019), Witch Hunt (Lazy Fascist Press, 2016) and Black Cloud (CCM/Emily Books, 2014). Her writing can be found in places like New York Tyrant, VICE, Hotel, BOMB, and The New York Times, and has been translated into many languages. She was born in Australia, raised in San Diego, and currently lives in West Virginia.
Megan Boyle is the author of LIVEBLOG, a novel, published 2018 by Tyrant Books, and selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee, a poetry collection, published 2011 by Muumuu House. From 2011-2013, Megan published an editorial column for Vice magazine called Boyle’s Brains and wrote articles for Thought Catalog. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and is pursuing a career as licensed clinical social worker with a counseling focus.
Fall 2022
Babak Lakghomi is the author of South (Dundurn Press, 2023) and Floating Notes (Tyrant Books, 2018). His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant, The Adroit Journal, and Green Mountains Review, and has been translated into Italian and Farsi. Babak was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto.
Paul Dalla Rosa is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His debut collection “An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life” is out with Allen & Unwin and Serpent’s Tail in 2022. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Meanjin, and New York Tyrant.
Chiara Barzini, was offered an extension of her Spring 2022 residency to continue her work. Her bio can be read below.
Spring 2022
Sara Verdecchia lives in Naples. She works as a freelance editor and collaborates with Pidgin publishing house, for whom she recently translated the collection of essays “Tonight I’m Someone Else” by Chelsea Hodson. Her writing has appeared in magazines such as Split, Suite Italiana, Micorrize and In Allarmata Radura. She is writing a novel and other stuff.
Marta Abbott is a Czech-American artist in Rome, working on paper and canvas in materials including handmade natural inks, earth pigments, and oil paints, as well as other organic and innovative mediums. She has been featured in AD Italia, ELLE Decor Italia, Zero Magazine (Italy), Lampoon Magazine (Italy), Sindroms (Scandinavia), Agave (Germany), and Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking by Jason Logan (Canada).
Chiara Barzini is an Italian author and screenwriter, nominated among the 100 most influential Women of 2020 by Forbes Italy. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vogue, The Village Voice, T Magazine, Interview Magazine, Harper’s, Vanity Fair Italy, GQ Italy, Vice, and Dazed&Confused amongst others. She is the author of the story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before The Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017.)